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When you read this, consider how America is not different from this and take God's word to heart.

1 "The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, 2 “Stand in the gate of the LORD’S house and proclaim there this word and say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah, who enter by these gates to worship the LORD!’” 3 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place. 4 Do not trust in deceptive words, saying, ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’ 5 For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a man and his neighbor, 6if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own ruin, 7 then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever. 8 “Behold, you are trusting in deceptive words to no avail. 9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery and swear falsely, and offer sacrifices to Baal and walk after other gods that you have not known, 10 then come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—that you may do all these abominations? 11 Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” declares the LORD. 12 “But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at the first, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel. 13 And now, because you have done all these things,” declares the LORD, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I called you but you did not answer, 14 therefore, I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave you and your fathers, as I did to Shiloh. 15 I will cast you out of My sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, all the offspring of Ephraim. 16 “As for you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with Me; for I do not hear you. 17 Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to spite Me. 19 Do they spite Me?” declares the LORD. “Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?” 20 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched.” 21 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh. 22 For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. 23 But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, that it may be well with you.’ 24 Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward. 25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending them. 26 Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck; they did more evil than their fathers. 27 “You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you. 28 You shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God or accept correction; truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth." Jeremiah 7:1-28
Yesterday I shared a tutorial for a very cool cake made using the Babycakes Cakepop Maker. Today I'm sharing my first few tries using the Babycakes Cupcake/Pie Maker.
Reading the reviews, everyone says they don't heat evenly - to check doneness of every cupcake, so I wasn't surprised to find it true. Here I followed their directions for two crust pies from ready made pie crust. I filled them with mincemeat (a fav of my husband - but I won't touch it - yech!). I cooked the allotted time from their directions and none looked done. I kept cooking a lot longer checking every 2 min. In the end I simply couldn't let them cook longer or the edges would have burnt, but still only three were done on top. There was some filling oozing out between the bottoms and tops and it oozed out of the tops of two baby pies too. But it doesn't matter to him - he's enjoying them. I am a bit disappointed.Then I tried making just crust shells for custards and such. First I tried it following their instructions. I had envisioned perfect little pie crusts like those you can purchase, only better because I could make the myself at home. I was sorely disappointed. They were not at all attractive or uniform.
I tried the rest of them using the Babycakes cutter and then forming them in the machine by hand. I got somewhat better results, but still FAR from the adorable store bought ones. I went ahead and filled them with coconut cream pie filling (requested by a brother at church) and topped them with toasted coconut. They looked better with the topping, but they were still very poorly shaped and very un-uniform. :( But, like all the other goodies, they disappeared quickly, so all was not lost. I'll keep practicing and HOPE to have better results.Please support this blog by shopping my PayPal store. God bless you!Download here for 24 hours, then available in my store. If you can't find it, e-mail me. Check out my TERMS OF USE here.The password is jesuschristislord.DigifreeCraftCraveCraftCrave